xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Discourse on disparities in sentencing, representation, and arrests in America according to race

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

I. American democratic society besieged by crime. 1. Present crisis of freedom under law -- 2. Influences on crime outside the criminal justice system -- II. Criminal justice in trouble. 3. Public disrepute of criminal justice -- 4. Injustice in criminal laws and agencies of enforcement -- 5. Injustice in the courts -- 6. The waste of corrections -- 7. Confusion and conflict of purpose -- 8. Rehabilitation in many modes -- III. Formation of the American conscience. 9. Puritanism : a paradoxical heritage -- 10. The Great Awakening and Jeffersonian humanism -- 11. The rush for riches : its social cost -- 12. Race, national origin and violence -- 13. MInority religions -- 14. Time and space in American culture -- 15. Two Americas -- IV. An ethical philosophy of criminal justice. 16. An emerging ethical consensus -- 17. A basic philosophy of criminal justice -- V. Social defense and restoration in practice. 18. Fortifying the community -- 19. The victim : forgotten person of American criminal justice -- 20. Criminal law : its scope and penalties -- 21. The police -- 22. The courts -- 23. Corrections -- 24. Citizen responsibilities in criminal justice

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